“ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. ”
Sanctify them - This word means to render pure, or to cleanse from sins, 1Th 5:23 ; 1 Corinthians 6:11 . Sanctification in the heart of a Christian is progressive. It consists in his becoming...
(f) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (f) That is, make them holy: and that thing is said to be holy which is dedicated to God and belongs to him alone.
John 13:33 to John 17:26 . The Last Discourses and Prayer. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problem...
Sanctify . Hallow. Greek. hagiam. Separation is the idea of the word "holy". See note on Exodus 3:5 . Thy . All the texts read "the". truth . The truth is the great separating force. Compare...
17. Sanctify them by thy truth. This sanctification includes the kingdom of God and his righteousness; that is, when God renews us by his Spirit, and confirms in us the grace of renewal,...
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Sanctify them - Ἁγιασον, from α, negative, and γη, the earth. This word has two meanings: 1. It signifies to consecrate, to separate from earth a...
They are not of the world,— "It is with great pleasure that I reflect on their being separated from the world, both in principles and practice, and that in this respect they so nearly resemble me....
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Sanctify them through, [ en ( G1722 ), or 'in'] thy truth: thy word is truth. Principles of vast importance are here expressed. Observ...
Christ's High-Priestly Prayer 1-26. Christ's Great Intercession for Himself, for the Apostles, and for the World. This prayer is often, and suitably called Christ's 'High-priestly prayer,' because...
Sanctify them through thy truth. — Better, in Thy truth. Truth was the sphere in which their sanctification was to take place. They had through Christ received the Father’s word, which was truth,...
XVI. CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER. "These things spake Jesus; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee: even as Thou...
in the World but not of the World John 17:11-17 What is the world? The inspired definition is given in 1 John 2:16 . Enumerating her three offsprings, the Apostle goes on to say, “All that i...
This chapter records for us words of our Lord addressed to His Father. In the first movement He was dealing strictly and only with relationships between Himself and the Father, referring to a past gl...
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (7) Now they have known that all things whatsoeve...
CHRISTIAN SANCTITY ‘Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.’ John 17:17 This is emphatically the Lord’s own prayer, the prayer which He Himself alone employed. It may serve as a...
Sanctify them through thy truth ,.... The Syriac version introduces this petition, with the appellation אבא, "Abba, Father": and the sanctification prayed for regards the apostles, either as ministe...
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Ver. 17. Sanctify them by thy truth ] Affect their hearts therewith, that they may the better affect others; speaking a corde ad cor, from t...
These things I speak in the world That is, before I leave the world; that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves I offer this prayer in behalf of my apostles, with this intention; that be...
HIS MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION (v.1) In Chapter s 13 to 16 the Lord has completed what He had to tell His disciples, ending with the empowering ministry of chapter 16. He has made every provision f...
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even...
It is doubted amongst interpreters, whether sanctifying in this place signifieth the consecrating, deputing, or setting the apostles apart, and preparing them for the work of the ministry in which th...
Jesus Prays In The Upper Room ( John 17 ). Depending on how we interpret John 14:31 this prayer appears either to have been made in the Upper Room, or at some spot on the way to the Garden of Ge...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 17:1 . These things spake, etc . (ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν).—The reference is to the discourse just ended. Lifted up .—From the troubles of earth and time the mind and...
John 17:16-17 Christian Separation from the World I. Its nature. The unworldliness of Christ is our model. The separating line which marked His life from the world's life is the line which is to...
John 17:1-2 . These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over a...
John 17:1 . Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son. By Father the divinity is understood, the Father being the fountain of deity. The hour of my passion being come, glorify thy Son by speedily...
Sanctify them through Thy truth. The sanctification of the saint’s I. AN OBJECT DEAR TO CHRIST. 1. He prayed for this on earth. Prayer is always the sign of earnest desire for another’s good...
EXPOSITION John 17:1-43 4. The high-priestly intercession . Audible communion of the Son with the Father . The prayer which now follows reveals, in the loftiest and sublimest form, t...
The Word keeps in faith:
1 Peter 1:22 ; 1 Peter 1:23 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Samuel 7:28 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 Timothy 2:25 ; 2 Timothy 2:26 ; Acts 15:9 ; Ephesians 4:21 ; Ephesians 5:26 ; James 1:21 ; John...
Looking Backward John 17:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Jesus Christ uttered in the upper room after He had taken of the Passover and had bro...
Sanctify — Consecrate them by the anointing of thy Spirit to their office, and perfect them in holiness, by means of thy word.